LENIN COLLECTION

**PROJECT OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS**
("Findings")

1) The contract to be formally signed⁴
2) Daily reports to be resumed

Mobilize workers for transport
{entrust to the Moscow [Professional] Soviet + NKPS}
3) Discuss urgently special measures for the delivery of
potatoes and monitor
the delivery
4) Extraordinarily approve the distribution (of meat?) ... Inform [?]ganskii
precisely regarding
distribution points
and the condition of transport.
labor ration?

The question of supplying Moscow with provisions was discussed at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 6 December 1919, following a report by L. B. Kamenev, chairman of the Moscow Soviet. The resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars on this question were formulated on the basis of proposals submitted by Lenin (minutes of the Council of People's Commissars No. 332 of 6 December 1919).

The matter concerns the signing of a contract between the People's Commissariat of Transport and the People's Commissariat of Food regarding the transportation of grain from producing regions to consuming regions.

* Daily informing of the Council of People's Commissars regarding the supply of Moscow with grain and regarding the movement of potato shipments for Moscow was entrusted to the Moscow Food Supply Department, the People's Commissariat of Food, and the People's Commissariat of Transport (minutes of the Council of People's Commissars No. 332 of 6 December 1919).

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**ON THE WORK OF THE APPARATUS OF FOOD SUPPLY ORGANS.**

**PROJECT RESOLUTION**
[6 December 1919]

Elect a commission for discussion of the question.

As the principal and urgent task, establish, first, the renewal and reorganization of the apparatus of the food organs, second, the introduction of genuine initiative into the very work of these organs.

Outline as practical means of carrying out these tasks:

the attraction of workers' cooperatives to the broadest possible participation;